Barnes&Noble.com has added three new features to its Barnes & Noble Studio multimedia site that are well worth a look.

In Guest Books, found out what writers read as authors talk about their top three favorite books. David Sedaris is featured this week.

5 Books selects five titles that will help readers sharpen their skills on a particular topic. Read all about wine.

The Book Files tells the story behind the book. This week’s featured book is James Joyce’s “The Dubliners.” Upcoming are Jerzy Kosinski’s “The Steps” and Dr. Seuss’ “Green Eggs and Ham.”

Visit http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bn-studio/videos-podcasts/index.asp?.

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Daisy Myers' "Sticks 'N Stones," Mary Hamilton's "Rising from the Wilderness," and Carol McCleary Innerst's "York College of Pennsylvania" are three books that merit reading this summer - or any time of year.

For more details, see: Central Pennsylvania histories make smart part of summer reading stack over at sister blog, York Town Square.

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Sometimes, as much as we hate it, we have to part with our books.

What else can we do when there just isn't enough shelf space for all our recent purchases?

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Have you just finished reading a book you couldn't put down, or one that kept putting you to sleep?

We want to hear about it, good or bad.

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While my husband watches basketball on television, my nose is in a book.

But now I’ve discovered that we literary types can get hyped with a March Madness of our own.

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“Wonderful Tonight -- George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me” by Pattie Boyd with Penny Junor.

Pattie Boyd was married to two of the biggest rock stars and was the subject of the hit songs, “Something,” “Layla” and “Wonderful Tonight,” but her life, as she writes in her autobiography, doesn’t seem particularly charmed.

First of all, her childhood was rocked by her parents’ strange marriage, her father’s and later her stepfather’s infidelity and several moves to different countries and cities and schools.

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“Can’t Buy Me Love – The Beatles, Britain, and America” by Jonathan Gould.

Since today is the 44th anniversary of the Beatles arrival in the United States on Feb. 7, 1964, I’m posting a review of a new Beatles book I just read.
When I, a true Beatlemaniac, started reading “Can’t Buy Me Love – The Beatles, Britain, and America” by Jonathan Gould, I was wondering if I’d learn anything new. I’ve read dozens of articles and books about the group, including Bob Spitz’s excellent biography, “The Beatles,” and the Anthology by the Beatles themselves.
But “Can’t Buy Me Love” gave me plenty new to think about.

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On Feb. 12, HarperCollins will publish a memoir and policy book by former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, finished only a week before her assassination.

According to the Associated Press:

The publication of “Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West” has “the full support of her family and advisers,” according to a statement issued today by HarperCollins.

“No one could have known that these would be Benazir Bhutto’s final words, and somehow that makes them carry even more weight, especially at a time like this,” said HarperCollins Executive Editor Tim Duggan. “This book is her legacy.”

Bhutto, a rival of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, died Dec. 27 in a suicide bombing and shooting in the city of Rawalpindi. Bhutto was a pro-U.S. moderate who had vowed to fight Islamic extremists if elected in an upcoming parliamentary vote.

The book will include an afterword by her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, and her three children.

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